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The Week In Review
Sat 20th February to Fri 26th February
The Week in Review aggregates the top news stories from the past seven days and orders them by popularity. Would you like to see the whole week's news?
Action needed to end 104% rise in resignations, experts warn
24/02/21 - Better leadership and support is needed to stem the tide of officers quitting, chiefs have been told. • The Police Foundation’s annual conference was told there has been a 104% increase in officers quitting the service since 2015. Leavers told a study by the University of Portsmouth that their reasons included a lack leadership, n
Justify stop and search or rethink, HMI tells Chief Constables
26/02/21 - Disproportionate stop and searches on BAME people need to be explained, HM Inspectorate has told forces. • HM Inspectorate has told Chief Constables they must explain the basis for stop and searches on BAME communities or risk losing trust. HMI said that despite having more data on the use of force and stop and search, police forces are st
Future leaders need new skills and be 'less risk-averse'
26/02/21 - Chief constables will need a wider skillset to meet future challenges, senior leaders have warned. • 'Safe appointees' leading forces they have spent years with will be ill-equipped to meet future policing needs, according to policing experts. Delegates who joined the online Police Foundation annual conference heard from senio
- 25/02/21 - Police Covenant 'not worth the paper it is written on' says Met Federation
- 24/02/21 - 'Reset' Airwave replacement project 'will be signed off next month'
- 26/02/21 - Number of black homicide victims at highest in nearly two decades
- 23/02/21 - Use VR to prepare recruits for trauma of police work says chief
- 25/02/21 - Five officers under criminal investigation following man's death
- 25/02/21 - 'Ninety years' before officer diversity reflects population
- 25/02/21 - NPCC backs Naloxone as West Midlands expands trial
- 22/02/21 - Merseyside pull 'being offensive is an offence' van after backlash
- 24/02/21 - Learning for assessments not skills is over, chiefs told
- 24/02/21 - Thames Valley sergeant convicted of battery of a child
- 23/02/21 - West Midlands OPCC employee convicted of child sex offences
- 25/02/21 - Officers acted appropriately with man who died after contact
- 26/02/21 - Federation considering legal challenge as vaccine priority rejected
- 26/02/21 - Surrey PCC welcomes news of potential traveller transit site
- 23/02/21 - Probationer PC dismissed for crashing car after lockdown party
- 25/02/21 - NPCC say Covid rules are clear but 9 out of 10 officers disagree
Features
Pressing the delete button
The service has a major issue dealing with poor quality legacy information on its systems. But how does it navigate those difficult backwaters safely? Gary Mason reports. • The routine ‘data weed’ of the PNC that recently resulted in the accidental wiping of more than 15,
Comment
Comment: The Lord, the Policing College and the front line
The appointment of the former austerity policing minister Lord Nick Herbert to the College of Policing rightly raised a few eyebrows, writes Chris Hobbs. • Amidst the constant headlines concerning the pandemic interrupted by the attempt to subvert American democracy, news of an appointment in resp
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